You're a moron, shut up
Oct 13, 01:34 AM—Micah Wylde
Jack Thompson is at it again. He has sent, apparently to various members of the press and Doug Lowenstein, president of the ESA a proposal for a video game. He promises to donate $10,000 to a charity if his game is made. Which seems innoculous enough (ok, maybe slightly deranged, but innoculous), except that his proposal is for a game whose protagonist blames video games for his murder of his father, and vows to take revenge on the video game industry, for making him kill his father.
You see, Jack doesn’t believe in beating around the bush. No, this attention seeking washed out attorney gets right to the point. Of course, he’s been at this sort of thing for years, and has railed against other industries since before pong.
Though he’s hardly unique in America with his nothing-you-do-is-your-fault-it’s-theirs message. We’ve been seeing it for most of this whole century; in its day rock music was corrupting our youth, then comic books were destroying our society, then punk, metal, etc. Of course, he’s fighting a losing battle; as all these have become accepted as their participants have aged and become those who decide what is acceptable, so will video games as this generation ages.
So enjoy it while it lasts, Jack.
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